Lead/Director, Platform Product Management - Data Platform & Operations

Vizient, Inc; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 118,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. seeks a leader to own the strategy, prioritization, and evolution of major internal platform domains.

You will oversee data platform capabilities—ingestion, EDL, data quality, governance, and source onboarding—driving reliability, reuse, and AI-enabled delivery across Vizient Intelligence products. You will partner with engineering, AI Delivery, architecture, security, and product leadership to set investment priorities, align roadmaps with enterprise goals, and coach a small

Qualifications

• Experience in product management, enterprise platforms, or data/analytics platforms.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional platform initiatives and roadmaps.
• Strong technical fluency across data, AI, governance, and developer workflows.
• Ability to influence investment priorities and align with enterprise strategy.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, prioritization, and roadmap alignment across multiple platform areas.
• Own data ingestion, EDL, data quality, metadata management, and source onboarding.
• Partner with engineering, AI Delivery, architecture, security, and leadership to set priorities.
• Define decision frameworks to improve platform reuse, developer productivity, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Align roadmaps with measurable outcomes like adoption, governance, and delivery velocity.
• Coach and develop a small team of platform product professionals.
• Establish lightweight product management standards for discovery, releases, and adoption.

Skills

Product management

Platform leadership

Data platform

AI-enabled delivery

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Education

Relevant degree preferred

Job description

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

Summary

Summary: In this role, you will lead the strategy, prioritization, and evolution of one or more major internally facing platform domains. You will own the internal data platform capabilities that make data reliable, reusable, and accessible across Vizient Intelligence products, including data ingestion, cross-cutting data services, the Enterprise Data Layer (EDL), data quality, and source onboarding. You will align platform investments with enterprise priorities, engineering capacity, AI Delivery strategy, architecture direction, and AI-first product delivery practices while partnering across cross-functional teams to improve internal developer productivity, accelerate product delivery, and enable scalable, secure, and reusable platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, prioritization, and roadmap alignment across multiple internal platform capability areas.
• Own the strategy, roadmap, and evolution of internal data platform capabilities, including data ingestion, cross-cutting data services, the Enterprise Data Layer (EDL), data quality, metadata management, governance capabilities, and source onboarding.
• Partner with Vizient Intelligence engineering, AI Delivery, architecture, security, and product leadership to define platform investment priorities.
• Establish decision frameworks that sequence platform capabilities, address technical debt, improve platform reuse, enhance internal developer productivity, and support AI-assisted and agentic development workflows.
• Align platform roadmaps with measurable outcomes, including reduced delivery friction, increased platform adoption, stronger governance, faster product delivery, and improved AI-first delivery maturity.
• Drive platform capabilities that improve the reliability, accessibility, and reuse of enterprise data across Vizient Intelligence products.
• Collaborate closely with data engineering teams to define platform capabilities that support scalable, high-quality, and governed data solutions.
• Facilitate executive stakeholder alignment on platform direction, funding, dependencies, tradeoffs, adoption expectations, and AI-first operating model changes.
• Represent platform product priorities in leadership forums by translating technical platform strategies into business-relevant decisions and resolving complex cross-functional priorities.
• Guide and develop a small team of platform product professionals through coaching, mentorship, and professional development.
• Establish lightweight platform product management standards, including discovery practices, roadmap narratives, success measures, prompt and context patterns, release planning, adoption planning, and responsible AI tool usage.
• Build strong partnerships across engineering, AI Delivery, architecture, security, design, and internal product teams to enable consistent platform adoption and delivery outcomes.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree preferred.
• 7 or more years of relevant experience required.
• Experience in product management, technical product management, enterprise platform products, data and analytics platforms, AI/ML products, developer platforms, AI-enabled software delivery, or enterprise technology initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience managing enterprise data platform capabilities, including data ingestion, Enterprise Data Layer (EDL), cross-cutting data services, data quality, metadata management, source onboarding, and data governance.
• Experience partnering with data engineering, architecture, AI Delivery, and engineering teams to define and deliver scalable platform capabilities.
• Proven success leading complex cross-functional platform initiatives, developing platform roadmaps, and influencing senior stakeholders to align investment priorities and technical decisions.
• Strong technical fluency across architecture, data, AI, integration, identity and access management, governance, internal developer workflows, and agentic or AI-assisted development practices.
• Knowledge of healthcare data ecosystems and enterprise data management principles preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to coach product teams in modern product management practices while leveraging AI tools effectively without creating unnecessary process overhead.
• Ability to influence enterprise investment priorities, technical tradeoffs, internal adoption strategies, and AI-first operating model decisions.
• Strong technical stakeholder management, communication, strategic thinking, and leadership skills with the ability to build scalable product management practices while maintaining a lean operating model.
• Experience developing high-performing teams and fostering collaboration across engineering, AI Delivery, architecture, security, design, and internal product organizations.

Estimated Hiring Range

At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $117,600.00 to $206,000.00. This position is also incentive eligible. Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here: http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.

About Vizient

Working at Vizient means shaping the future of healthcare, every day. Alongside our clients, we're building a healthier, more human healthcare system. We connect people, data, and solutions to enable healthcare organizations to improve financial sustainability, enhance system performance, and deliver better care. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, with 11 offices across the United States, Vizient has more than 5,000 employees who bring deep expertise and a shared commitment to transforming healthcare. Together, we're solving some of the industry's most complex challenges while creating opportunities to learn, grow, and drive lasting change for healthcare organizations and the communities they serve. Through our enterprise of companies, we deliver meaningful impact across the continuum of care: Apexus - The exclusive contractor for 340B Drug Pricing Program, managed by the Health Resources and Services Administration. aptitude - The industry's first online direct contracting market, supporting self-contracting activity between hospitals and suppliers. Kaufman Hall - Leading healthcare advisory services to support our clients in achieving financial, clinical, and operational excellence. Provista - Proven supply chain partner specializing in extended, diagnostic, and preventive care facilities, including surgery centers, home health, and senior living.